The Abbey Tavern Singers - Off To Dublin In The Green lyrics

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I am a merry ploughboy and<br />

I ploughed the fields all day<br />

Till a sudden thought<br />

Came into my head<br />

That I should roam away<br />

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For I'm tired of civilian life<br />

Since the day that I was born<br />

So I´m off to join the I.R.A.<br />

And I´m off tomorrow morn<br />

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[CHORUS]<br />

So we´re off to Dublin'<br />

In the green, in the green<br />

Where the helmets<br />

Glisten in the sun<br />

Where the bayonets flash<br />

And the rifles crash to the<br />

Echo of a Thompson Gun<br />

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Oh, I leave behind<br />

My old gray home<br />

I leave behind my plough<br />

And I leave behind<br />

My old gray mare<br />

For no more I´ll need 'em now<br />

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And I leave behind my Mary<br />

She´s the one that I adore<br />

And I wonder will<br />

She think of me when she<br />

Hears the rifles roar<br />

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[Repeat CHORUS]<br />

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Oh, some men fight for silver<br />

And some men fight for gold<br />

But the I.R.A. are fighting for<br />

The land the Saxons stole<br />

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[Repeat CHORUS]<br />

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And when the war is over<br />

And dear old Ireland's free<br />

I will take her to the church to wed<br />

A rebel's wife she´ll be<br />

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[Repeat CHORUS]